Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Thus, these white dwarf stars can serve as unique, if distant, laboratories for studying the insides of demolished planets that are otherwise out of reach ... by the Milky Way-mapping Gaia ...

At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters ... like stars in circular planar orbits between out to 400 Earth-Sun distances from their parent star.

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Firstly, the study found that a high percentage of planets orbiting red dwarf stars (the most abundant type of star in the Milky Way) could generate their own heat. “We found that when one ...

"Uranus and Neptune, two very distant ice giant planets out in our solar system, are also there in the sky," Dyches said.

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many bright planets at once.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic ... such as planets, moons, asteroids, comets ...

The night sky is putting on a celestial show with a dazzling "planetary parade" featuring six major planets and a bonus comet ...

You’ll be able to view a rare alignment of planets this month and into February. Our astrotourism expert reveals the best ...